Saturday, April 16, 2016

Oregon Pre-teens' Sex Ed used Porn, Parents Livid

Educators at Hudson Park Elementary School believed "It's Perfectly Normal" to teach fourth graders how to masturbate with picture books of naked kids and adults having sex, but after parents brought the "education" books (given to their children) to the school board, Rainier School District administrators decided to withdraw the books.

“She told the students that they had to check them out and take them, so those books went home, and some other parents that we know got involved because the books came home with their children.”-- Darren Vaughn, parent

The book in question, titled “It’s Perfectly Normal,” touts itself as a children’s book for ages 10 and up, that talks all about changing bodies, sex and sexual health.

Inside of the book are illustrations about all of those things, including pages of naked teens and adults, some depicting sex acts and even masturbation.

Officials with the Rainier School District noted the title is on the state approved list of books allowed at the school, but in a letter sent home to parents Thursday, the school’s principal admits they were inappropriately passed out to 4th graders in the library recently.

Darren Vaughn, who has a fifth-grade son at the school, said he learned from his neighbors that librarian Alison Dale-Moore had told several kids to look at the books. Vaughn, 43, of Rainier said his son later told him that the librarian had told several of his friends to take the books.

Vaughn said the books — including “It’s Perfectly Normal” and “It’s Not a Stork” — are “very graphic and explicit” for 10-year-olds. He said the books contain images of masturbation, condom usage, sexual intercourse and self examination.

“For example, “It’s Perfectly Normal” has a young female person bending over with a full view of her backside examining herself with a mirror,” he said. “There’s a young boy on a bed who is masturbating. It gets worse from there.”

[Vaughn] said several board members were in the dark about the books, despite the complaints being reported to Superintendent Michael Carter at the end of March.